EV Grieve
News about the East Village of NYC
Monday, May 26, 2008
At the Loisaida Festival, May 25
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Several of us were watching the couple passionately kissing by the port-o-potties. Bonus: Part of the live entertainment
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OMG! Isn't that Oliver Platt?!
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New York magazine has a listing of some of the movies that will be filming around town this summer. In the LES, two projects are listed, i...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
Breaking: Living in Manhattan can be expensive for young professionals
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The Times has a piece today -- titled Starting Salaries but New York Tastes -- on how difficult it is being a young professional trying to...
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A model co-op
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Catching up on this week's New York Observer today. According to a real estate piece by Max Abelson, 21-year-old model Lily Donaldson ...
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10th Street between First and Second Avenue, 8:07 a.m., May 25
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Revisiting: "How many rich jerks that want to be in Sex and the City can there possibly be in America?"
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I originally ran this post on April 9. But it seemed like a good thing to repeat, given what's facing us next Friday... In a Q-and-A pu...
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Minetta Tavern is one of Esquire magazine's "Best Bars in America"
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I noticed the coverlines on the June issue of Esquire touting its next installment of the "Best bars in America" feature. Was a l...
Third Avenue, 7:47 a.m., May 24
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[And warning: Street festival on Third Avenue today!]
Friday, May 23, 2008
Friday night, May 23
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Highs and lows this week
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Such good news this week about St. Brigid's . Meanwhile, this is what's left of the Tower of Toys as of Friday afternoon around 4.
"A handful of its buildings may seem grimly picturesque, but for the most part this is unappealing New York"
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That's Simon Jenkins writing in today's Guardian UK . It's a reaction to the National Trust for Historic Preservation naming th...
Dumpster of the Day
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10th Steet between Avenue A and First Avenue.
I had this dream in which I woke up and every corner in the city was now a condo, bank and Duane Reade
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Then I woke up for real and.....AHHHHHHHHHH!
The Brooklyn Bridge really overdid it last night during its 125th birthday
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Can't even call this a hangover. Still, what a blowout!
I'm really tired of suggestive advertising
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What exactly does "come to your happy place" mean? Now this is just too much!
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Hmm, feel like seeing a movie at my neighborhood theater -- what shall I see?
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"Just because a building is old does not mean that it is historically significant"
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That's Mitchell L. Moss, professor of urban policy and planning at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service, in an op-ed in today'...
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Days of Heaven? 7th Heaven? Little bit of heaven? Heaven sent?
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Pennies from heaven? I think $20 million deserves better than "Pennies." Still, at least they didn't play up the "America...
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"They tore it down. They tore it down. They tore it down."
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Indeed. That's what a man remarked (over and over) this morning as he walked by the rubble that used to be the Tower of Toys in the comm...
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A St. Brigid's killjoy
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I exchanged e-mails with a friend in the neighborhood last night about the new life for St. Brigid's. He seemed initially happy, I thoug...
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St. Brigid's as it was...and as it will be...
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I had mentioned Paul Dougherty, a longtime video maker, in a post on April 24. Given the good news about St. Brigid's, let's take a...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Wow -- St. Brigid's is SAVED (hallelujah!)
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Just what the neighborhood needed. Amazing news. The City Room has the story: Donor Gives $20 Million to Save St. Brigid’s By Sewell Chan A...
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